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“I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.”
Peter De Vries
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Stay the course, light a star,Change the world where'er you are.”
Richard Le Gallienne
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
Aristotle
“I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.”
Carol Gilligan
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.”
Dr. Seuss
“I didn't graduate from any of them (Colleges) and look at me now mom!”
Billie Joe Armstrong
“American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.”
Camille Paglia
“Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.”
Gordon Brown
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson